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Despite my earlier efforts to share these visionary suggestions with screenshots, it seems that people continue to rely heavily on search engines to get to their Yahoo! Mail account. Now if you simply like that process, more power to you. But if you would like something with fewer steps, do I have the […]

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We’ve learned that some users may be intermittently encountering errors, or delays, when attempting to attach or download files within Yahoo! Mail.
Our engineers are reviewing the situation, but in the meantime I wanted to confirm with you that we are aware and are on the case.  You should also know that in many cases users […]

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Just a quick bit of news before the weekend.  While I may write this blog with our US audience in mind, I know that some of you out there are reading my words from places far beyond my local shores.  That is why I wanted to make absolutely sure that any of you reading from […]

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In reading some of the recent comments on this blog, I’ve noticed that some folks have the impression that some of the recent changes going on around the network (updated profiles for example) are happening for no reason.  So I thought I would take a moment to give a refresher on the big picture.
You may […]

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This doesn’t really have anything to do with Mail, but it’s too important not to mention.  Today is election day, so if you have already done so…THANK-YOU.
If you haven’t, there’s still plenty of time to head over to your local polling location.  If you don’t know where that is, you can check the special Yahoo! […]

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You didn’t think I would let Halloween pass without showing off some of our favorite costumed Liams did you?  My favorite is Rappin’ Liam, but since Dracula is a more famous character I thought I would give Count Liam the top position.

Hope all of you out there have a happy and safe Halloween!

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If he keeps this up I may just have to find a way to give Mark his own byline, but in case you missed the Yodel post, our resident anti-spam czar Mark (the same one who held the recent workshop) had a few words to share about the ever increasing “lottery” scams.  Check it out!
Coalition […]

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While we have a lot of confidence in the overall experience being offered by the All-New Calendar beta, the fact of the matter is that it is a beta and some people may want to switch back.  We had always intended to include that option (hence the Help pages that describe its presence on the […]

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Over the next several weeks, the RSS Feeds Reader (integrated into the sidebar of the All-New Mail) will begin to ease off into the sunset.  Overall usage of the feature was very low, and we’ve made the choice to focus our development resources on features and functionality that are valuable to the most users.
All of […]

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Hi all,
Based on feedback on this blog, and much of what I’m hearing from other blogs, there is a bit of confusion regarding the new profiles experience.  Because of this I want to offer some important clarification about how it works.
There are a lot of people who think we are now automatically displaying your information […]

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